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Poster: ColdRain108 Date: Sep 3, 2021 3:51pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: its the same story the crow told me...

Actually it was huge mountain Ravens...lots and lots of them.

http://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8034541

I'm still stunned by what happened to us. Turned out for the best, almost a prayer answered in a very weird way...I needed some serious solitude after this last year and a half...but this was spooky. It all worked out in the end.

Warning: non-dead related, well not directly anyway, but to me everything in life is Dead related. PS Sugaree was my ear worm the entire trip.
This post was modified by ColdRain108 on 2021-09-03 22:51:47

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Poster: c-freedom Date: Sep 3, 2021 7:32pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: its the same story the crow told me...

Very cool Cold Rain,

We drove past and around Mount Mitchell in North Carolina in May.
got out and stretched a few times never leaving site of the car
and we were just absolutely flabbergasted by the incredible beauty of the landscape and the unique vibe of the wilderness.

So cool that you folks get out and really discover the wonders of nature.
I know that backpackers are super organized.
We have to be content with logging roads in the Land Rover
It doesn't sound like fires or smoke was an issue,
the Weather Channel sometimes makes it sound like
the whole Western U.S. is going up in flames.
Great Photo's ⚡
Looks like a huge Wasp's nest in that one photo.

Like the morning sun we come
and like the wind we go..

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Poster: ColdRain108 Date: Sep 7, 2021 10:43am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: its the same story the crow told me...

The Olympic park was spared the smoke this year. The air flow patterns kept the smoke mostly to the east. One of the attractions of the Olympics is the isolated nature of the area and the proximity to the ocean. The Elk, marmot, and several species of plants are singular to the Park. It is a mountain island. I was born on the Oly Peninsula, so it is in my DNA. It is the main reason I still live in SEA.

My wife and I have been doing these trip since we first met, it was one of the things that we found we had in common (that and Organic Chemistry). A friend of mine dubbed her "a studly woman". This was a particularly challenging hike. Lots of elevation gain and loss.

We saw several huge wasp's nests along the way. I've watched as Grey Jays tear them open and eat the contents.

This trip was punctuated by the evacuation of the north end of the park due to some whack job thinking he was starting the meth revolution. He tried to destroy the radio repeaters and block roads by cutting down trees. Instead he just got to spend a couple of miserable nights in the woods - no equipment and it went into the 30's at night - before surrendering. But because of that we got to spend 4 days w/o seeing any other humans.

I love being out in the "real world". No buffer between me and the vast infinite universe. Every step is in the "no fall zone", heightened awareness, the sounds of silence are all encompassing.